A meta-analysis and review of holistic face processing.

JJ Richler, I Gauthier - Psychological bulletin, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
The concept of holistic processing is a cornerstone of face recognition research, yet central
questions related to holistic processing remain unanswered, and debates have thus far …

Why does picture-plane inversion sometimes dissociate perception of features and spacing in faces, and sometimes not? Toward a new theory of holistic processing

E McKone, G Yovel - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2009 - Springer
Classically, it has been presumed that picture-plane inversion primarily reduces sensitivity to
spacing/configural information in faces (distance between location of the major features) and …

The composite face illusion: A whole window into our understanding of holistic face perception

B Rossion - Visual Cognition, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Two identical top halves of a face are perceived as being different when their bottom halves
belong to different faces, showing that the parts of a face cannot be perceived independently …

Super-recognizers: People with extraordinary face recognition ability

R Russell, B Duchaine, K Nakayama - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2009 - Springer
We tested 4 people who claimed to have significantly better than ordinary face recognition
ability. Exceptional ability was confirmed in each case. On two very different tests of face …

Holistic processing predicts face recognition

JJ Richler, OS Cheung, I Gauthier - Psychological science, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
The concept of holistic processing is a cornerstone of face-recognition research. In the study
reported here, we demonstrated that holistic processing predicts face-recognition abilities on …

Individual differences in holistic processing predict face recognition ability

R Wang, J Li, H Fang, M Tian, J Liu - Psychological science, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Why do some people recognize faces easily and others frequently make mistakes in
recognizing faces? Classic behavioral work has shown that faces are processed in a …

Using regression to measure holistic face processing reveals a strong link with face recognition ability

J DeGutis, J Wilmer, RJ Mercado, S Cohan - Cognition, 2013 - Elsevier
Although holistic processing is thought to underlie normal face recognition ability, widely
discrepant reports have recently emerged about this link in an individual differences context …

Individual differences and the multidimensional nature of face perception

D White, AM Burton - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Face perception is crucial to social interactions, yet people vary in how easily they can
recognize their friends, verify an identification document or notice someone's smile. There …

Advances in developmental prosopagnosia research

T Susilo, B Duchaine - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) refers to face recognition deficits in the absence of
brain damage. DP affects∼ 2% of the population, and it often runs in families. DP studies …

Impaired holistic processing in congenital prosopagnosia

G Avidan, M Tanzer, M Behrmann - Neuropsychologia, 2011 - Elsevier
It has long been argued that face processing requires disproportionate reliance on holistic or
configural processing, relative to that required for non-face object recognition, and that a …